Brussels -- The Irish High Court will begin hearing a data transfer case tomorrow, 7th February, that questions the validity of one of the few legal instruments European and international companies rely on for data transfers from Europe to third countries such as the United States. The Irish Data [ More ... ]Read More

Brussels, Belgium -- Representatives of the EU’s national data protection authorities have recently issued a statement on the adoption of a new agreement to permit transatlantic data transfers between the EU and US. The Article 29 Working Party emphasized the importance of annual reviews and the [ More ... ]Read More

Brussels, Belgium -- CCIA and other members of the Industry Coalition for Data Protection (ICDP) today issued a joint statement to welcome the improved Privacy Shield text. Privacy Shield will strengthen transatlantic data flows and provide legal certainty for European businesses and [ More ... ]Read More

Washington -- Senior U.S. and EU government officials and tech representatives took stock of the transatlantic digital relationship at CCIA’s Transatlantic Internet Policy Dialogue today.
Today’s event provides stakeholders’ input to the U.S. and EU’s own “Information Society [ More ... ]Read More

Brussels -- The European Justice Commissioner, Věra Jourová, today presented the full details of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the new framework for transatlantic commercial data flows.
The framework includes major privacy safeguards including: strong obligations on participating companies and [ More ... ]Read More

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